Word: high
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next high moment of the evening came when Feldmarschall Mackensen, his white mustache fluttering with his earnestness, addressed the assembly crisply as follows...
...military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg had his 50-year-old friend and comrade General Mackensen privately, intimately for lunch...
Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
Attacked on three fronts, the Nationalist Government of slender President Chiang Kai-shek teetered perilously on catastrophe's brink last week, then swung back to safety. Chief stabilizer was a high and bloody victory over the rebellious "Ironsides" divisions of General Chang Fa-K'uei in his attempt to capture Canton...
That all was not well in Royal Mail was indicated when early this year the common stock began a decline that carried it from a high of 76 (shillings) to 55. Then, while the stock dropped abruptly to 44, Lord Kylsant's brother. Viscount St. Davids, publicly accused him of mismanagement...